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Saturday 13 May 2023 sees the return of the customary appointment with the European Night of Museums, this year in its 19th edition. The initiative was created under the patronage of the Council of Europe, UNESCO and ICOM to enhance European cultural identity and involves museums throughout Europe.
For the occasion many European museums will open their doors to the public:
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, via Roma, Calci - https://www.msn.unipi.it/it/
The Natural History Museum will be open, in addition to its usual opening hours, from 7.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m., with free admission to all permanent exhibitions. It will also be possible to visit the Museum Aquarium and the temporary exhibition 'Kryptòs. Deception and camouflage in the animal world', on payment of the relevant ticket.
ORTO E MUSEO BOTANICO, via Ghini 13/via Roma 56, Pisa - https://www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/
Saturday 13 May 2023, from 20:30 to 22:00, Nell'Orto di notte
Guided tour of the Botanical Garden and Museum at night on the occasion of the Museum Night; in particular, the greenhouses and the Botanical Museum will be visited. Entrance: via Roma, 56. Free event with prior booking while places available last (maximum number of participants: 25)
Online booking required at https://www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/prenotazione-visite-speciali/
EGYPTOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS, Via S. Frediano 12, Pisa - https://www.egitto.sma.unipi.it/
Saturday 13 May 2023, A Night at the Egyptological Collections
On the occasion of the European Night of Museums, guided tours by appointment will be organised during the special night opening, to discover one of the richest collections of Egyptian antiquities in Tuscany in a new and evocative setting.
Guided tours in three shifts at:
9pm
9.45pm
10.15pm
Free event with prior booking while places last, not accessible to the disabled.
Online booking required at https://www.egitto.sma.unipi.it/prenotazione-eventi-speciali/
Guided tours will last 30 minutes.
For information: 050 598647; info.collezioni-egittologiche@sma.unipi.it
MUSEO DELLA GRAFICA, Lungarno Galilei,9, Pisa - https://museodellagrafica.sma.unipi.it/
Saturday 13 May 2023, 20:00 - 23:00 WES. Free entrance on the occasion of Museum Night
SCIENTIFIC LUDOTECA (Museum of the Instruments of Physics), Via dei Macelli, 2/b / Via Nicola Pisano, 25 (Largo Padre Renzo Spadoni) - http://www.ludotecascientifica.it/
Saturday 13 May 2023, from 15:00 to 22:00, Galactic Park
On the occasion of the Night of the Museums comes Galactic Park, a day dedicated to astronomy and space exploration, with workshops, lecture-shows and telescope observation of the sky.
The workshops:
The planets in the garden, interactive display of the solar system to scale. Starting at 3 p.m.; Admission free;
Miniature space rockets, air and water model launches. Starting at 3 p.m. Free admission
Excursions through the solar system, a journey into the geology of the planets. Starting at 16:00 in several shifts, duration 30 minutes. Reservations recommended.
For reservations and information: 050 2214861 - 320 0403946. http://www.ludotecascientifica.it/
Lecture show:
Error 404: planet not found, the search for planets in the solar system. 6 pm. Free event with prior booking while places last.
Absurd stories of real rockets, a tale of the strangest aerospace engineering projects. 9pm. For reservations and information: 050 2214861 - 320 0403946 - http://www.ludotecascientifica.it/
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SAN MATTEO, Piazza San Matteo In Soarta, 1 - http://www.polomusealetoscana.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/204/pisa-museo-nazionale-di-san-matteo
Evening opening of state-owned cultural sites at the symbolic price of 1 €
The Museo Nazionale di San Matteo Pisa will be open extraordinarily from 20:00 to 23:00 (last entrance at 22:30)
9.30 pm - The Madonna of the Merchants by Barnaba da Modena narrated by Prof. Marco Collareta.
The signed work is considered the masterpiece of Barnaba da Modena, an aristocratic artist active mainly in Piedmont and Genoa, called to Pisa in 1379 to fresco a wall in the Monumental Cemetery with the Stories of San Ranieri. The master never completed the commission, but it was perhaps on this occasion that the Guild of Merchants of Pisa commissioned the large panel, as the inscription on the frame attests (CIVES ET MERCATORES PISANI PRO SALUTE).
MUSEO NAZIONALE DI PALAZZO REALE, Lungarno Pacinotti, 46 - http://www.polomusealetoscana.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/202/pisa-museo-nazionale-di-palazzo-reale
On 13 May the National Museum of Palazzo Reale will also be open extraordinarily from 8.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. at the symbolic cost of 1 euro. There will be a free guided tour at 9.30 pm.